Leisurely, happy times will always pass quickly......

Six months later, Deep Space has successfully reached planet GB131!

The curvature engine gradually went out, and the hull came out of the curvature bubble. Immediately after that, the ion engine was activated, and the entire spacecraft tried to stay in the synchronous orbit of planet GB131, maintaining the same rotation period as the entire planet.

GB131 itself is not as big as the moon, and there are no satellites around it, so there is no tidal friction.

The consequence of the absence of tidal friction is...... The planet rotates quite fast, about eight hours to do a week. According to various data, the synchronous orbit of the spacecraft is about 8,800 kilometers above the ground, and the equivalent linear velocity is 2,182 m/s.

In the captain's room, a group of people are paying close attention to the synchronization of the spacecraft.

This kind of mission should not be a difficult task for the Deep Space, so everyone was not nervous, but discussed with each other a little hotly. When people come to a new planet, there is always a sense of curiosity, excitement and a unique desire to explore.

Many of the scientists who came after them were leaving Knicks for the first time, so they were also very excited.

Through astronomical telescopes, they have vaguely observed the uniqueness of this planet.

Of course, this uniqueness is definitely a great thing for humans!

The ionic flame changes from strong to weak.

The entire spacecraft orbited the planet twice, and finally reached the expected orbit, successfully maintaining a relatively stationary state with the planet.

From the ground, 8800 km!

"Hey, when we designed the spaceship, it would have been nice to stay on the planet, it would have greatly accelerated our mining mission." One scientist complained

"No, materials science wasn't so developed at the beginning...... It can't support the mass of the ship itself. ”

"And building a spacecraft that can land on planets will greatly increase the amount of work."

"I don't know if nanomaterials are feasible now......"

Yu Yifeng coughed a few times, interrupting the crowd who were having a heated discussion.

"Okay guys, this synchronization work has been successfully completed...... Each department carefully checks the operation status of the spacecraft, and retrieves and analyzes the complete record of the voyage! ”

"Report the results to me as soon as you are done."

Yu Yifeng calmly gave orders, and at the same time, there was a slight excitement in his heart, "Next, I announce that the first planetary landing exploration work has officially started!" ”

"Captain's order, the first landing detection work has begun!"

At the sound of an order, the tail of the Deep Space slowly opened an opening, and sixteen exploration satellites were launched with a "whoosh".

After that, a hundred small probe ships were launched one after another, and they quickly flew out of the engine room of the Deep Space.

As is customary, drones will be the first to explore the unknown planet.

They will probe the planet's specific topography, collect geotechnical samples, and test for the presence of microorganisms...... Even in interstellar civilizations, microbial prevention and control work is still necessary.

"To be reasonable, this planet is even worse than the moon, with no atmosphere, no water, no geothermal, and sometimes the stellar radiation is even more terrifying, and even microbes are difficult to survive."

"yes, the light of the twin stars is too fierce for the tardigrades to survive here. Moreover, the orbit of the planet is not circular, and the temperature difference changes even more drastically......"

That being said, out of an abundance of caution, people follow the rules that have been set in a step-by-step manner...... Even Alien Black thinks that such rules are strict enough.

The various weapons on board the Deep Space are all semi-active, and if something really happens, it will fire mercilessly. The central computer is also processing all kinds of information, trying to find anything suspicious.

After a hundred small shuttles landed peacefully, the cabin door opened, and rows of robots suddenly ran out.

Each ship carried more than a hundred, and there were as many as 10,000 in total.

The planet will be fully explored by these robots.

Because there is no geological activity on the planet, the ground here is quite gentle, except for large and small craters, there is not much undulation in other places.

The planet's environment is somewhat similar to that of the Moon.

However, with the passage of time, coupled with the huge temperature difference, the surface soil is quite sparse, and the robot drove all the way, leaving traces of crawlers and boiling dust......

The detection lights overhead the robots turn on, illuminate the entire ground, and then shoot video footage along the way, transmitting a large amount of data back to the computing center.

A central computer works quickly to find suspicious areas while directing the robot to move, detect, or collect specimens.

Everyone quickly got busy.

During the three days of exploration, these 10,000 intelligent robots almost explored the world, and then reported the final results to the captain's office.

Everyone had a cheerful smile on their faces.

Yu Yifeng took a breath softly: "No trace of life was found!" No microbes! ”

"It's really a rare metal planet, with a lot of iron, nickel, ...... And precious metals such as silver, gold? There are even a lot of uranium mines! It's amazing...... A metal planet...... There is such a planet in the universe. ”

Xu Yunjin, who was standing in front, said with a smile: "If this planet can replace the moon, it is estimated that people will really run over to pan for gold......"

"There's a lot of gold here, and the budget for the moon base will increase dramatically!"

This planet is about one-eighth the mass of the Earth, similar to the Moon, but 1.6 times denser than the Moon, because of its special generation conditions, the whole planet gathers a large number of metal minerals!

Helium, on the other hand, is mostly concentrated in ilmenite-rich soils with particles smaller than 50 microns.

There is no magnetic field on the surface of this planet, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which will screen out ordinary helium elements, and with suitable adsorbent substances, it is simply a natural helium-3 collector!

Scientists estimate that billions of tons of helium-3 or so could be collected!

Billions of tons, even if it's only a billion tons, it's too much for humanity!

Helium-3 fusion produces powerful energy, which can meet the current energy needs of mankind as long as a few tens of tons a year.

A billion tons is simply too much.

Therefore, such an opportunity must not be missed.

"Deep Space is running normally!"

"The losses of each reactor, curvature engine, and ion engine are as follows: ......"

With the appearance of a series of test reports, Yu Yifeng took a closer look.

In the end, he finally put his mind at ease, and there were no major mistakes in Deep Space, which also meant ...... Mankind has thoroughly mastered the means of interstellar navigation at medium and long distances!

A treasure mountain is placed in front of people's eyes, and now people just need to keep mining and developing!

A group of scientists were also eagerly discussing the conditions for the formation of this strange planet. For them, exploring and discovering the unknown is always the most exciting thing.

One of the astronomers said, "Did you find out? This kind of planet is very much like the inner core of a planet! As we all know, the Earth's core is also mainly composed of iron-nickel metal, and the radius of the Earth's core is about 3,500 kilometers. ”

"What if...... We have cut away the Earth's outer crust and mantle, leaving only the Earth's core, which is a completely enhanced version of the metal planet. ”

"In this regard, I estimate that this metal planet should be the remains left by the collision of two planets a long time ago, and the collision should not be too violent, so part of the core has been preserved...... Then it evolved into this metal planet. ”

"So...... Where did the rest of the shells go? Another asked.

"Another planet may have been formed...... This is supposed to be the one, right? It may also have become an asteroid belt here. The young scientist pointed at a photo of the starry sky.

The smaller planets in this region are quite dense, and there is a Neptune-like gas planet farther away, surrounded by a cloud age like Saturn's rings. So the astronomer's statement is quite plausible.

All in all, the discovery of this metal planet has made everyone happy!

This is a treasure from heaven!

So much so that Yu Yifeng immediately made up his mind to establish a large number of mining bases on this metal planet! Not only helium-3 is mined, but also large quantities of rare metals such as uranium, lithium, titanium, zirconium, silver, etc.!

After all, human beings have not yet achieved small-scale nuclear fusion, except for Deep Space, other vehicles still use conventional power, so the more uranium ore such a thing, the better!

Energy, he definitely doesn't have too much, after all, the uranium ore on the planet Nix has been almost mined, and humans don't get much.

There are also gold and silver are certain industrial materials, and of course the more the merrier......